Rs5bn solar village electrification going on in rural areas, CM
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Rs5bn solar village electrification going on in rural areas, CM
KARACHI (Aug 5): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Public Health Engineering & Rural Development Department are playing vital role in the development of rural areas, but it becomes the ultimate responsibility of local people to look-after their water supply, drainage and solar energy schemes.
This he said while presiding over a meeting of PHE& RDD here at the CM House today. The meeting was attended by Minister for PHE&RDD Fayaz Butt, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Secretary Public health Tamizuddin Khero, Member P&D Khalid Mahmood, chief Enigineer Hyderabad Nafees Shiakh, Director Tech P&D Abdul Sattar Qureshi and other concerned officers.
Minister PHE&RDD Fayaz Butt said that the PHE department has launched a Rs4.11 billion 231 water supply and drainage schemes, of them 165 are on-going, 76 are new.
The meeting was informed that against the allocation of Rs4.1 billion, the government has released Rs4 billion and the over all work on the schemes would be completed by 88 percent.
Giving the break up of the schemes, the meeting was told that 70 water supply and 115 drainage schemes are on-going against a cost of Rs3.8 billion.
Secretary PHE Tameezuddin Khero told the meeting that 40 RO plants were installed in 13 districts, of them 35 are functional. On this the chief minister directed him to take necessary measures to functionalise the out of order five RO plants located in Tando Allahyar (3 units), Naushehroferoze (one unit), and Mirpurkhas (3 units). He also directed Minister for PHE& RDD Fayaz Butt to personally visit out of order RO plants and the functional plants also so that necessary measures could be taken to repair them.
Minister for PHE& RDD Fayaz Butt said that RDD department has launched a programme to install 14222 LED lights in the streets of rural areas. He added that so far 8376 have been installed. The details are 3080 in district Hyderabad villages, 1579 Shaheed benazirabad, 868 in Mirpurkhas, 1774 in Larkana and 1075 in Sukkur villages.
The Rural Development Department 9RDD) during 2017-18 has launched 63 schemes of Rs4.9 billion 63 schemes of water and drainage scheme for which allocation for the current financial year is Rs3 billion and so far Rs122 m have been released.
The chief minister said that a scehme of Rs68 million has been launched to install solar tubewells for water supply to different village sof Thano Bola Khan. A similar schemes have also been taken up for the villages of Mehar and Khairpur Nathan Shah for Rs28 million and in various other villages of Tangwani- Kandhkot district, taluka Duar of Nawabshah and so. He directed Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem to work out a plan to hand over the completed schemes to village communities to look after them. “This is very important, otherwise it would be difficult to keep vigilance on them,” he said.
The chief minister also said that RDD has also been assigned to install solar lights in rural area for Rs3 billion. It has alsio been given a Rs2 billion electrification of off-grid areas through Solar Technology under which schools and villages would be electrified. A similar phase-II of Rs80 billion would be launched. “I would urge you (PHE&RDD) to be more effective and efficient to achieve the assigned task,” he directed the minister Fayaz Butt.
Abdul Rasheed Channa
Media Consultant to Chief Minister Sindh
Media Cell Team
Sindh Chief Minister House.
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KARACHI (Aug 5): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Public Health Engineering & Rural Development Department are playing vital role in the development of rural areas, but it becomes the ultimate responsibility of local people to look-after their water supply, drainage and solar energy schemes.
This he said while presiding over a meeting of PHE& RDD here at the CM House today. The meeting was attended by Minister for PHE&RDD Fayaz Butt, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Secretary Public health Tamizuddin Khero, Member P&D Khalid Mahmood, chief Enigineer Hyderabad Nafees Shiakh, Director Tech P&D Abdul Sattar Qureshi and other concerned officers.
Minister PHE&RDD Fayaz Butt said that the PHE department has launched a Rs4.11 billion 231 water supply and drainage schemes, of them 165 are on-going, 76 are new.
The meeting was informed that against the allocation of Rs4.1 billion, the government has released Rs4 billion and the over all work on the schemes would be completed by 88 percent.
Giving the break up of the schemes, the meeting was told that 70 water supply and 115 drainage schemes are on-going against a cost of Rs3.8 billion.
Secretary PHE Tameezuddin Khero told the meeting that 40 RO plants were installed in 13 districts, of them 35 are functional. On this the chief minister directed him to take necessary measures to functionalise the out of order five RO plants located in Tando Allahyar (3 units), Naushehroferoze (one unit), and Mirpurkhas (3 units). He also directed Minister for PHE& RDD Fayaz Butt to personally visit out of order RO plants and the functional plants also so that necessary measures could be taken to repair them.
Minister for PHE& RDD Fayaz Butt said that RDD department has launched a programme to install 14222 LED lights in the streets of rural areas. He added that so far 8376 have been installed. The details are 3080 in district Hyderabad villages, 1579 Shaheed benazirabad, 868 in Mirpurkhas, 1774 in Larkana and 1075 in Sukkur villages.
The Rural Development Department 9RDD) during 2017-18 has launched 63 schemes of Rs4.9 billion 63 schemes of water and drainage scheme for which allocation for the current financial year is Rs3 billion and so far Rs122 m have been released.
The chief minister said that a scehme of Rs68 million has been launched to install solar tubewells for water supply to different village sof Thano Bola Khan. A similar schemes have also been taken up for the villages of Mehar and Khairpur Nathan Shah for Rs28 million and in various other villages of Tangwani- Kandhkot district, taluka Duar of Nawabshah and so. He directed Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem to work out a plan to hand over the completed schemes to village communities to look after them. “This is very important, otherwise it would be difficult to keep vigilance on them,” he said.
The chief minister also said that RDD has also been assigned to install solar lights in rural area for Rs3 billion. It has alsio been given a Rs2 billion electrification of off-grid areas through Solar Technology under which schools and villages would be electrified. A similar phase-II of Rs80 billion would be launched. “I would urge you (PHE&RDD) to be more effective and efficient to achieve the assigned task,” he directed the minister Fayaz Butt.
Abdul Rasheed Channa
Media Consultant to Chief Minister Sindh
Media Cell Team
Sindh Chief Minister House.
https://www.youtube.com/SindhCMHouse
https://dailymotion.com/SindhCMHouse
https://twitter.com/SindhCMHouse
https://facebook.com/SindhCMHouse
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SindhCMHouse